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Does anyone besides me think AC today is a joke?

vchimpanzee said:
"She Bop" is a lot softer.

Something like "Relax" really fits only Hot AC.
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I have a reversed music taste on that. For some reason, "Relax" is softer to me, more fitting to AC to me. While "She Bop" is more intense, more fitting to Hot AC, Adult Hits, Rock, Classic Rock, or Classic Hits.

By the way, since we discussed about the ACs KMGL/Oklahoma City (my hometown) and WLTW/NY in many other topics before. KMGL occasionally plays "Relax" on their "Awesome 80s Weekend" a couple of years back while WLTW occasionally plays "She Bop" on their "Best of the 80s Weekend".
 
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Oh well, if the parents does really complain about the music contents on AC. The FCC could step into the programming...? Well, as a music & radio enthusiastic and a gamer myself. Lets take look at how the ESRB took over the PC and console games and rated them with all inappropriate contents in the game listed on the game sold to parents who are buying for their kids.

Later with the effort of Hillary Clinton, most major game retailers restricted the sales of M (Mature 17+) rated games to consumers under the age of 17. Though this is self-regulatory effort after Hillary spoke about it in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Consumers that looks like they're below 25 years old are likely to be required to present a state identification when purchasing an M rated game (like Grand Theft Auto). How did it all started? Well some parents had been reporting and complaining the influence of violence on children from violent video games, so came the birth of the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) organization.

Lets go back on look at the music contents on AC and grocery stores or thrift stores today that plays straight-off an AC station or an AC playlist. If there are enough parents out there to complain about the music on AC that is not appropriate for their kids. An organization probably called ACPA (Adult Contemporary Parent Advisory) for explicit contents on AC formatted commercial FM stations in major markets and all other markets. As of how game developers eliminates the inappropriate contents through patches and stores restricting sales of M rated games to consumers under 17. With an organization pushing the limits, Adult contemporary programming directors may start filtering inappropriate songs about sex which also make room to bring back a lot of the traditional love songs of the 70s,80s,90s of Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Phil Collins, Richard Marx, James Taylor, and back to the way ACs sounded in the 1990s. How would AC really work out well with Arbitron/Neilsen PPM? Well, it doesn't even look like parents really care about the inappropriate materials on AC than they would for inappropriate materials on movies and video games. So, as a result regulation or self-regulation on AC contents is very unlikely.
 
"Oh well, if the parents does really complain about the music contents on AC. The FCC could step into the programming...?" No, it was deemed unconstitutional for the FCC to be involved in programming.
 
Music Lover's hubby, Timothy, here. My wife, Mary, aka, Music Lover, and I self-regulate what AC's we stream in our home, in our car, at work. If songs like "Blurred Lines" is included on the playlist, we don't listen to that station.

When it comes to grocery stores, etc., at most places we shop and eat, the music is kept so low in the background, it's barely noticeable.
 
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We don't need committees or agencies or what have you. People pick what they want. When the empirical data says the audience, as a collective majority, doesn't want it, it won't be around.
 
andrewduong77 said:
Oh well, if the parents does really complain about the music contents on AC. The FCC could step into the programming...? Well, as a music & radio enthusiastic and a gamer myself. Lets take look at how the ESRB took over the PC and console games and rated them with all inappropriate contents in the game listed on the game sold to parents who are buying for their kids.

Later with the effort of Hillary Clinton, most major game retailers restricted the sales of M (Mature 17+) rated games to consumers under the age of 17. Though this is self-regulatory effort after Hillary spoke about it in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Consumers that looks like they're below 25 years old are likely to be required to present a state identification when purchasing an M rated game (like Grand Theft Auto). How did it all started? Well some parents had been reporting and complaining the influence of violence on children from violent video games, so came the birth of the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) organization.
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That was Tipper Gore, not Hillary Clinton.
 
michael hagerty said:
That was Tipper Gore, not Hillary Clinton.
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What did you expect from someone who thinks the FCC still has authority over programming? Obviously, the OP either never bothers to use search engines for fact-checking or doesn't know how to fact-check. Either way, you post inaccurate information, you get called out on it.

No different than when I post hurriedly and rely on my memory ... and get something wrong. I once posted the title and author of a book on how the FCC bungled the introduction of UHF television in the 1950s, had the book right next to me while I was posting, and still got the author's name wrong!

In any event, perhaps if the OP does know about Google, Bing, or Yahoo he will search on "WNCN" and find out why the FCC couldn't "step in" the way he thinks they can.
 
K.M.,

I've written some bonehead posts too. Only after re-reading my posts did I discover my stupid (and sometimes embarrassing) errors.
We're human. Our minds don't always perform at full throttle.

Frank
 
Timothy, Music Lover's hubby here. Are the rules different for TV? I remember the FCC was going to fine CBS over Janet Jackson's "boob" incident during the Superbowl in 2004.
 
Timothy, here again.

@KM
The OP (Jason the Great) is basically rehashing the same complaint of some other threads here about not liking today's AC and preferring 80's/90's AC, as evidenced by the artists mentioned in the OP's post. These "broken record" complaints are what's prompted my wife, Mary, to create this on-going list: (http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?684817-Revised-List-of-Web-only-AC-Stations) and also why there is this on-going list: (http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?670371-Looking-for-Soft-Rock-Stations).
 
Music Lover said:
The OP (Jason the Great) is basically rehashing the same complaint of some other threads here about not liking today's AC and preferring 80's/90's AC, as evidenced by the artists mentioned in the OP's post.
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Hard to generalize about AC as a format. It comprises different songs and decades in different markets. Some towns have several stations that call themselves AC, each with different songs.

There are no national "rules" about AC. It just has to be contemporary music that appeals to adults.
 
TheBigA said:
Hard to generalize about AC as a format. It comprises different songs and decades in different markets. Some towns have several stations that call themselves AC, each with different songs.

There are no national "rules" about AC. It just has to be contemporary music that appeals to adults.
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Timothy here. As both the OP and my wife pointed out earlier in the thread, listeners that are making these broken-record complaints remember the 80's/90's era of AC being referred to as "easy listening" due to many playlists being ballad-oriented at that time.

I don't know how wide-spread that was, but, most of the AC stations in the Virginia and North Carolina markets that my wife and I are familiar with were that way. About the edgiest we heard was, Q99, in the Roanoke, VA market. They were playing songs like "Jack and Diane" that was a no-no on many of the other AC's we heard at that time.
 
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Music Lover said:
Timothy here. As both the OP and my wife pointed out earlier in the thread, listeners that are making these broken-record complaints remember the 80's/90's era of AC being referred to as "easy listening" due to many playlists being ballad-oriented at that time.
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And as I said, some stations in some markets continue to play soft hits. There is no consistent or national "rule" about this. Stations do whatever works best for them.
 
andrewduong77 said:
I have a reversed music taste on that. For some reason, "Relax" is softer to me, more fitting to AC to me. While "She Bop" is more intense, more fitting to Hot AC, Adult Hits, Rock, Classic Rock, or Classic Hits.80s Weekend.
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Really? That seems very strange.

On the other hand, I've been told certain songs I have no problem with on soft stations are loud. It makes a big difference to me whether the lead instruments are trumpets or guitars.

Someone thought I was wrong to think "One" by Three Dog Night didn't belong on adult standards radio, but Music of Your Life, which was the conservative format, plays it. Whoever disagreed with me pointed to "America" by Neil Diamond, which doesn't seem loud at all to me, maybe because it's Neil Diamond. Another example was "You Make Me So Very Happy" by Blood, sweat and Tears, but that to me is very much a jazz song and doesn't seem out of place on standards radio.

But to me "RElax" is anything but relaxing, with all the synthesized pounding and other noise. It just sounds like a dance club.
 
Music Lover said:
Are the rules different for TV? I remember the FCC was going to fine CBS over Janet Jackson's "boob" incident during the Superbowl in 2004.
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No, they are not different. But TV, having a visual component, is more susceptible to obscenity complaints. The Janet Jackson incident fell under "obscenity" while most radio incidents and complaints involve profanity.

In a make-the-lawyers-cringe oversimplification, dirty words are profanity while a description or visual of something that appeals to the prurient interest is obscenity.
 
DavidEduardo said:


No, they are not different. But TV, having a visual component, is more susceptible to obscenity complaints. The Janet Jackson incident fell under "obscenity" while most radio incidents and complaints involve profanity.

In a make-the-lawyers-cringe oversimplification, dirty words are profanity while a description or visual of something that appeals to the prurient interest is obscenity.
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We're really talking about indecency. Obscenity will get you a lot more than just fined!
 
Sally Ann said:
Would a soft AC like this one work? Soft currents get more heavier rotation, making it feel less oldie moldy.

https://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/amazinglitemusiccom/index
http://www.amazinglitemusic.com/
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Timothy here. Here's what the owner/PD said about the station in an interview on All Access:

AmazingLiteMusic.com presents a unique take on Adult Contemporary. It is "Hot" Soft AC. We have a tight rotation of currents and re-currents culled from today's Top 40 charts, mixed in with a larger yet still relatively tight selection of lite favorites from the 70s to the 2000s. Softness and quality control tie everything together. Every song "has" to be free of hard edges and of course, it has to be amazing, or it doesn't make the cut. This approach has resulted in very fast growth and loyal listenership especially in the office. Furthermore, there are markets where terrestrial adult-targeted formats have become rather Rhythmic. AmazingLiteMusic.com provides an oasis of ease.

http://www.allaccess.com/hot-modern...ns-with-bernardo-moronta#sthash.vL2GClO3.dpuf
 
I'm not sure where to do this, but I started a new bank account yesterday. The objective was to have a place where I can cash checks in more locations. Most of my money is in the branch nearest my house, but I never go there. The branch of that bank I went to most has closed, but before they did, they had an AC station which was getting louder and louder, and I wondered how long they'd put up with it. They didn't. One day the music was entirely different and not from a radio.

Other branches of that bank do seem to have the current version of AC playing.

Another bank I spent some time in had The Blend. I heard the station ID. Not as bad as the local AC FM, but not in my opinion appropriate in a professional setting.

I haven't asked yet but the Wells Fargo branch I was in had nice instrumental music that I didn't notice at first. Now that's the right way to do business.
 
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